Re: [mythtv-users] MythShyte: One unhappy customer

2005-07-20 Thread Cecil Watson
antec wrote: I apologise for my hot-headedness. I gave KnoppMyth a go first off and my bt878 got blacklisted. There was nothing configurable on this DELL bios so I scrapped that. Define "blacklisted" and which version of KnoppMyth did you try? Thanks, Cecil

Re: [mythtv-users] MythShyte: One unhappy customer

2005-07-19 Thread Nick Rout
> I don't even remotely understand why people are actually replying to this guy. > ___ hr has ap[ologised and seen the error of his ways. We can't all be forever damned by one outburst (although you can bet google won't forget in a hurry :) -- Nick Ro

Re: [mythtv-users] MythShyte: One unhappy customer

2005-07-19 Thread Gavin Haslett
For the record, I just want to add that I've been using a less-capable system than your 1Ghz machine for some time. I have an Athlon 800 with 768MB of RAM (though I ran 256MB for a while). To be honest I didn't see any problems with my setup except for some random failures of Mythbackend (that were

Re: [mythtv-users] MythShyte: One unhappy customer

2005-07-19 Thread Asher Schaffer
Maybe I just missed it, but did you mention if you had SUID mythfrontend? I had a friend who was having prebuffer pauses on a p4 2.8 and that cleared it right up. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/lis

Re: [mythtv-users] MythShyte: One unhappy customer

2005-07-19 Thread Geoff Scott
On 7/19/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't even remotely understand why people are actually replying to this guy. Funny, I was thinking the same thing. If being rude and throwing around "shyte" and calling the code crummy (and I guess by extension the dev's) gets you copio

Re: [mythtv-users] MythShyte: One unhappy customer

2005-07-19 Thread cythrault
I don't even remotely understand why people are actually replying to this guy. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] MythShyte: One unhappy customer

2005-07-19 Thread Nick Rout
o. On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 06:09:53 +0930 antec wrote: > thats interresting. are you using a hardware or software capture card? > - Original Message - > From: Darren Coleman > To: 'Discussion about mythtv' > Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 5:53 AM >

Re: [mythtv-users] MythShyte: One unhappy customer

2005-07-19 Thread Howard Cokl
--- John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 06:11:28AM +0930, antec > wrote: > > thanks, John also had this to point out. I can now > understand why the > > system paused and the overheads involved. > > In general, I would *HIGHLY* recommend getting a > capture card wit

Re: [mythtv-users] MythShyte: One unhappy customer

2005-07-19 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 06:11:28AM +0930, antec wrote: > thanks, John also had this to point out. I can now understand why the > system paused and the overheads involved. In general, I would *HIGHLY* recommend getting a capture card with hardware MPEG-2 encoding, such as the PVR-250. Not only ar

Re: [mythtv-users] MythShyte: One unhappy customer

2005-07-19 Thread antec
From: "Jake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion about mythtv" Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 5:33 AM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythShyte: One unhappy customer wow, not sure whether this e-mail is flame-bait or what. the question i have for you is why you would try t

Re: [mythtv-users] MythShyte: One unhappy customer

2005-07-19 Thread antec
thats interresting. are you using a hardware or software capture card? - Original Message - From: Darren Coleman To: 'Discussion about mythtv' Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 5:53 AM Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] MythShyte: One unhappy customer

Re: [mythtv-users] MythShyte: One unhappy customer

2005-07-19 Thread antec
AIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion about mythtv" Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 5:55 AM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythShyte: One unhappy customer from the docs -A PIII/733MHz system can encode one video stream using the MPEG-4 codec using 480x480 capture resolution. This does not a

RE: [mythtv-users] MythShyte: One unhappy customer

2005-07-19 Thread Darren Coleman
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Kuphal > Sent: 19 July 2005 21:27 > To: Discussion about mythtv > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythShyte: One unhappy customer > > antec wrote: > >

Re: [mythtv-users] MythShyte: One unhappy customer

2005-07-19 Thread antec
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythShyte: One unhappy customer --- antec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am atill getting prebuffer pause even though I have done everything recommended in the documentation pages: * bought and installed a geforce card * got xwindows working with nvidia * upgra

Re: [mythtv-users] MythShyte: One unhappy customer

2005-07-19 Thread Howard Cokl
Original Message - > From: "Jake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Discussion about mythtv" > > Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 5:33 AM > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythShyte: One unhappy > customer > > > wow, not sure whether this e-mail is fl

Re: [mythtv-users] MythShyte: One unhappy customer

2005-07-19 Thread Kevin Kuphal
antec wrote: 25fps no HD no xvmc 512Mb ram VIA chipset 640x480resolution the pauses were less on the 1Ghz, so the system was marginally faster, but still paused. I cant imagine what would happen if I tried to record something! Just an FYI, if you are watching Live TV, you are both recording

Re: [mythtv-users] MythShyte: One unhappy customer

2005-07-19 Thread John Kuhn
Wave Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion about mythtv" Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 5:30 AM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythShyte: One unhappy customer What is the framrate of your captured videos? Is this HD? Are you using xvmc? How much RAM do you have? What ch

RE: [mythtv-users] MythShyte: One unhappy customer

2005-07-19 Thread Darren Coleman
Don’t know if this will help but when I had 512MB in my system (XP 2400, Shuttle SK41G, Geforce FX5200) I would get some stuttering when the feed first started, leaving Myth about 5-6 seconds behind live TV.   After swapping out the memory and replacing it with 1GB (2x512) I don’t get any

Re: [mythtv-users] MythShyte: One unhappy customer

2005-07-19 Thread antec
nt: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 5:33 AM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythShyte: One unhappy customer wow, not sure whether this e-mail is flame-bait or what. the question i have for you is why you would try to fix what you perceive to be a software problem with hardware. you also left a few crucial de

Re: [mythtv-users] MythShyte: One unhappy customer

2005-07-19 Thread Joe Barnhart
--- antec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am atill getting prebuffer pause even though I have done everything > recommended in the documentation pages: > > * bought and installed a geforce card > * got xwindows working with nvidia > * upgraded machine to a P3-1Ghz. (not a celeron!) > * checked a

Re: [mythtv-users] MythShyte: One unhappy customer

2005-07-19 Thread antec
OTECTED]> To: "Discussion about mythtv" Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 5:30 AM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythShyte: One unhappy customer What is the framrate of your captured videos? Is this HD? Are you using xvmc? How much RAM do you have? What chipset is your motherboard usin

Re: [mythtv-users] MythShyte: One unhappy customer

2005-07-19 Thread Jake
wow, not sure whether this e-mail is flame-bait or what. the question i have for you is why you would try to fix what you perceive to be a software problem with hardware. you also left a few crucial details out of you e-mail, mainly what capture card are you using, what resolution are you capturi

Re: [mythtv-users] MythShyte: One unhappy customer

2005-07-19 Thread Big Wave Dave
What is the framrate of your captured videos? Is this HD? Are you using xvmc? How much RAM do you have? What chipset is your motherboard using? What resolution are you outputing? I'm sure others will have more questions... but I'm sure those are some things people will need to know before they can